Microwave devices with MPLS capabilities

[ankarb]

Do you know which vendors have or plan to have Microwave devices capable of MPLS?

From what I know all current microwave devices have only Ethernet switching (L2) functionality.

Thanks in advance. ​

[simog72]

SIAE Microelettronica and huawei at the moment

[ankarb]

SIAE Microelettronica and huawei at the moment

I agree for Huawei, but for SIAE I cannot find any document that mentions such capability. To clarify when I say MPLS capability I mean that the forwarding is done based on MPLS labels and not based on VLAN/MAC address.

[byja]

SIAE Microelettronica and huawei at the moment

Huawei's RTN can not even do QoS based on MPLS TC (EXP) bits, so I doubt they have something better.

[simog72]

RTN 905 has MPLS switchinbg capability byja..

[ankarb]

Huawei's RTN can not even do QoS based on MPLS TC (EXP) bits, so I doubt they have something better.

Huawei's RTN9xx series supports MPLS. For example RTN910 is actually a Router with MPLS functionality. See attachment below:

RTN910 product description => RTN 910 Product Description(V100R003C03_01)-3.rar

[simog72]

i told 905...it s the new compact

[ankarb]

i told 905...it s the new compact

Do you have more information about RTN 905? (no info at Huawei's web).

Thanks in advance.

[simog72]

sure..pls add rept
RTN 905 Product description(V100R005C).zip

[ankarb]

Could you help me about the following situation?

Let's say that I need to backhaul a 3G NodeB with ATM IMA interface with a Ethernet microwave radio. The Ethernet microwave radio MUST be able to implement ATM pseudowire (RFC4717). That is it must create a packet with 2 MPLS labels: the PW label (inner) and the transport label (outer). Nonetheless the forwarding of these packets (at the microwave part of the network) will be based on VLAN and MAC address because microwave radio is Ethernet (L2) device. Also the 2 MPLS labels will be assigned statically (NMS) because Ethernet microwave radio has no control plane (LDP support).

My question is about the way these pseudowire circuits are handled end-to-end (from NodeB to RNC). Somewhere in the Aggregation network (which usually is IP/MPLS network) must exist a special router that can handle such cases. Could you indicate router devices that can handle situations like the above one?